The Baltimore Ravens did not just suppress Tom Brady's statistics compared to what he had done all season previous to facing them. The Ravens forced Tom Brady into such an uncharacteristically terrible game that his performance against them was really no better than what the Ravens had allowed to primary quarterbacks all season. In some ways he outperformed the other primary quarterbacks the Ravens faced, but in others he fell well short.
Brady was able to put up better numbers than the other quarterbacks the Ravens played against in completion percentage (61.1 percent to 53.5 percent), yards per pass attempt (6.6 to 6.4), net yards per pass attempt (6.3 to 5.4), and sack percentage (2.7 percent to 7.8 percent).
However, all those advantages were overshadowed by the categories in which Brady failed to match what the Ravens had allowed all season. Brady was below-average in adjusted yards per pass attempt (4.1 to 5.3), adjusted net yards per pass attempt (3.9 to 4.4), yards per completion (10.9 to 11.9), and touchdown percentage (0.0 percent to 1.9 percent).
Brady also had a much higher interception percentage than the other primary quarterbacks the Ravens had faced, and it was his interceptions and lack of touchdown passes that caused his performance to measure up so poorly to other quarterbacks the Ravens defended.
On Sunday, Brady played like anything but the future Hall of Fame quarterback he is, but instead, he was incredibly mediocre.
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